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Post #776219 by Sunny&Rummy on Wed, May 24, 2017 7:55 AM

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Found a movie reference from one year earlier. There's also a Fats Waller song about the cocktail from a couple of years earlier.

"In the 1942 movie, "So's Your Aunt Emma!", Emma Bates (ZaSu Pitts) is offered a drink at a bar and asks what a "Zombie" is. Her escort, newspaper man Terry Conners, says, "That's not for you," and orders her a "Horse's Neck." "